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Important Quotes Explained. 1. Look what can happen in this country, they’d say. A girl lives in some out-of-the-way town for nineteen years, so poor she can’t afford a magazine, and then she gets a scholarship to college and wins a prize here and a prize there and ends up steering New York like her own private car.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Find the quotes you need in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, sortable by theme, character, or chapter. From the creators of SparkNotes.
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- Sylvia Plath, Frances Monson McCullough, Lois Ames
- 1963
- “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.
- “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
- “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
- “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
Sylvia Plath Quotes. By Esther Lombardi. "What a man wants is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from." - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar , Chapter 6. "She was a fat middle-aged woman with dyed red hair and suspiciously thick lips and rat-colored skin and she wouldn't even turn off the light, so he'd ...
Important Quotes. “I use the lipsticks now and then, and last week I cut the plastic starfish off the sunglasses case for the baby to play with.”. (Chapter 1, Page 3) This offhand quote from an older Esther implies that she has gone on to have a child after the events of The Bell Jar concluded. This is important in the context of her ...
